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Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

Jeff Navin

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

We need leaders who believe in doing big things - like creating the jobs and companies of the future from the AV to Santa Clarita, that’s exactly what I’ve done: creating 700 jobs in the Antelope Valley alone. I’m running because I believe that our best days are ahead of us.

George Whitesides

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All these cities like Bakersfield and Visalia are in a valley near the forests that are seeing big fires. There’s also intense agricultural and industrial work there, so they unfortunately have all the worst conditions for air pollution.

Tarik Benmarhnia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For example, they like to claim breakfast tacos. Breakfast tacos did n’t come to That Austin until the ’80s. Meanwhile, in the ‘ 50s and earlier, they were being eaten in the Rio Grande Valley, on the border with Mexico City-style, and in San Antonio.

Courtesy José Ralat Ralat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That Austin is a Tex Mex town that historically has not had diversity until recently, for example, they like to claim breakfast tacos. Breakfast tacos did n’t come to That Austin until the ’80s. Meanwhile, in the ‘ 50s and earlier, they were being eaten in the Rio Grande Valley, on the border with Mexico City-style, and in San Antonio.

Courtesy José Ralat Ralat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The implication for investors is that this market is not driven by broad-based higher growth expectations but instead by what has happened with rates, in particular after [Silicon Valley Bank] went under.

Torsten Slok

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A striking feature of the Silicon Valley Bank run, though not so much of the Credit Suisse one, was the speed with which it took place, i do think we have to look back at these outflow rates … and ask what we have learned.

Sam Woods

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As has been reported, on Friday night a chemical spill occurred in Bristol Township, Bucks County which released contaminants into the Delaware River, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) became aware of this through the Delaware Valley Early Warning System (EWS) and has been evaluating the situation since that time to understand potential impacts to the public. Although early indications have not revealed contamination, we are still monitoring the situation and conducting testing.

Mike Carroll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Complications in some areas include decades of over-pumping of groundwater, leading to land subsidence and decreased groundwater storage capability – you can see a couple of low well readings in the San Joaquin Valley, more realistically, there is a bit of lingering ‘groundwater drought’ in northeastern and southeastern California.

Brad Rippey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fast forward five years, and two of those banks – Silicon Valley and Signature Bank – failed due to lack of liquidity and possible undercapitalization, their failures destabilized the financial system in the process and caused federal banking regulators to take measures (such as insuring all the deposits at the two failed banks) that will tempt banks to bet on even bigger risks in the future.

Patricia McCoy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Markets could get messy amid the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, alongside ongoing uncertainty over the future path of the global economy and interest rates.

Marty Dropkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During the Obama-Biden administration, we put in place tough requirements on banks like Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, including the Dodd-Frank law, to make sure the crisis we saw in 2008 would not happen again, unfortunately, the last administration rolled back some of these requirements. I’m going to ask Congress and the banking regulators to strengthen the rules for banks to make it less likely this kind of bank failure would happen again.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bank has a standardized corporate governance structure and an independent balance sheet, as China’s first technology bank, SPD Silicon Valley Bank is committed to serving Chinese science and technology companies, and has always had sound operations in accordance with Chinese laws and regulations.

Silicon Valley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Highs are expected to soar into the 70s this afternoon as far north as the Ohio Valley, with 80s across the Deep South and southern Plains, these warm temperatures could break several daily record highs.

Climate Prediction Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m a diversity and inclusion advocate, no matter where I am, whether it’s in the gun community, whether it’s in my day job in Silicon Valley.

Conrad Bui

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Driving through Sacramento Valley, I’ve seen many more open fallow rice fields with nothing on them, it’s because land that’s used for rice farming really ca n’t be used for another crop.

Andrew Broddus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These glacial dams are no different to constructed dams, if you take the Hoover Dam, for instance, you’ve got a massive lake behind it, but if you suddenly remove the Hoover Dam, that water has to go somewhere, and it’s going to come cascading down a valley in massive flood waves.

Tom Robinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those who rush up a peak without a plan often end up in the valley below - as food for vultures.

Dianne Marie Teresa Cole

added by 331king
1 year ago

Silicon Valley Meta’s not whether you say the truth or not, it’s whether what you say or do incites violence and can be clearly linked to developments in the real world which threaten real world harm, silicon Valley Meta’s not about truth or lies. Now, the question will be whether that practice would be broadly applied to other leaders.

Nick Clegg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He comes from here, we have direct access to him, and he has access to people to help us tell our story. Our story is that the lifeblood of the Central Valley, of California, is Ag, which requires water and requires space. I don’t ascribe to the belief that you have to be like me to think like me, to do something great for us in Kern County or for our nation. I think you have to have clear eyes and a strong mind and work hard.

Catherine Fanucchi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’m not opposed to the Valley Pipeline, i do n’t think Congress should be in the business of approving pipelines or rejecting them.

Tim Kaine

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My son, Jaime Jorge Zapata, lost his life to keep our Rio Grande Valley community safe. Mayra’s dedication to honor his service helped us receive his death gratuity benefits. It is most appreciated, no family should ever have to go through the pain and suffering of losing a family member, only to be forgotten by Washington bureaucrats for more than eleven years!

Mary Zapata

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No state has more to lose, and no state has more to gain, than the State of California from Silicon Valley to Central Valley.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think we should say, ‘what did we vote on?,' we saved 100,000 pensions here in Ohio. Many teamsters here in Ohio, in the Mahoning Valley, were going to have their pensions cut in half to two-thirds. We saved those pensions. We just lowered prescription drug costs, capped the Medicare out-of-pocket expenses to $2,000 for seniors, we capped insulin at $35 for people who are in the Medicare program….

Susan Walsh -RRB- Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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